Hilary Swank

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I think her face looks kind of frightening in the Amelia trailer. I guess the short hair only works on her when she's playing a Matt Damon look-alike.

[HotLips]

The idea of her and Richard Gere together is really unappealing to me. It's almost as bad as Richard/Winona.

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Oct 18, 2009 15:01:41 GMT -4 HotLips said:

The idea of her and Richard Gere together is really unappealing to me. It's almost as bad as Richard/Winona.

Yeah, that too.

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Oct 18, 2009 15:00:08 GMT -4 @ds1 said:

I think her face looks kind of frightening in the Amelia trailer. I guess the short hair only works on her when she's playing a Matt Damon look-alike.

I think it's the jacked up teeth and the blonde too. It's just not her look.

[Ginger]

Doesn't she have a habit of blurting out things she shouldn't? I recall her letting the cat out of the bag regarding her soon to be ex-husband's addiction, without much consideration.

That was no accident. That was a totally premeditated revelation to Vanity Fair that was designed to get her sympathy & make her seem blameless in the divorce. I was always annoyed by her arrogance and self righteousness, and that cemented my hatred. There is not a single thing I like about her - not her acting, not her looks, not her personality.

I think that only thing that doesn't bug me about her is the nudity thing. I wouldn't do it, but a lot of people around the world do and they're fine, so I can't categorically say that it's wrong.

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Oct 18, 2009 15:57:34 GMT -4 Ginger said:

Doesn't she have a habit of blurting out things she shouldn't? I recall her letting the cat out of the bag regarding her soon to be ex-husband's addiction, without much consideration.

That was no accident. That was a totally premeditated revelation to Vanity Fair that was designed to get her sympathy & make her seem blameless in the divorce. I was always annoyed by her arrogance and self righteousness, and that cemented my hatred. There is not a single thing I like about her - not her acting, not her looks, not her personality.

Yeah, Hilary Swank is the one actress whose movies I actively avoid. She just sucks as a person and as an actress. I just cannot get over the fact that she has the same number of Oscars as Meryl Streep. The woman who has starred in such masterpieces as Terror in the Family and Dying to Belong is apparently on par with Meryl Streep. The Oscars are a freaking joke.

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She won her two Oscars before the Academy gave Kate Winslet her first. That alone proves what a joke the Oscars actually are (though I still follow the whole thing year after year). And I don't think that Hilary's two winning roles were that much better than Kate in Hamlet, Little Children, Sense & Sensibility, Iris, Eternal Sunshine or any other role she didn't win anything for.

[normadesmond]

Oct 18, 2009 16:17:49 GMT -4 @crow said:

Oct 18, 2009 15:57:34 GMT -4 Ginger said:

That was no accident. That was a totally premeditated revelation to Vanity Fair that was designed to get her sympathy & make her seem blameless in the divorce. I was always annoyed by her arrogance and self righteousness, and that cemented my hatred. There is not a single thing I like about her - not her acting, not her looks, not her personality.

Yeah, Hilary Swank is the one actress whose movies I actively avoid. She just sucks as a person and as an actress. I just cannot get over the fact that she has the same number of Oscars as Meryl Streep. The woman who has starred in such masterpieces as Terror in the Family and Dying to Belong is apparently on par with Meryl Streep. The Oscars are a freaking joke.

And one of Meryl's is for supporting actress. Both of Hilary's are for lead actress. Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Montgomery Clift, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck, amongst others, went to their graves with zero Oscars, unless you include honorary ones. Henry Fonda didn't win one till he was on death's door, he finally got one in his late seventies (astonishingly, it was only his second ever nomination).... then promptly bit the dust. Let's face it, the Oscars are a joke.

I can't help it, I have a soft spot for Swank. I like her for some reason, even though she does manipulate the media: her SNL hosting gig during peak Oscar season, as well as her 60 Minutes profile, were calculated to win more Oscar votes, and that's exactly what happened. I can't blame her, though, since it hardly seems possible to win anymore without playing these P.R. games. But there was no reason she had to win a second time. Her acting wasn't good enough to justify another statuette. But then, Morgan Freeman also won for Million Dollar Baby for his 98th "magical black man" performance: great actor, but no way is that his best work.

But at least they haven't given one to the most overrated actress in history, Natalie Portman..... yet.

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But there was no reason she had to win a second time. Her acting wasn't good enough to justify another statuette.

I was wondering if people thought she deserved the second one.

I don't begrudge her the first one because I thought that was a genuinely good performance with difficult material that required a great transformation.

But I don't think I understood the second win. I guess her performance was okay, but I didn't think it HAD to win like perhaps the first one deserved to.

[iClaudia]

I figure she was riding on the Clint Eastwood love train when she won the second Oscar. As ridiculous as the Oscars often are, I was actually happy when she won the second time because I just knew that Fishstick was somewhere stewing in her juices about. Her reaction after Swank won the first time ("welcome to the club" phony pretension) always bugged me. I'd rather Swank have two Oscars than some other anointed one "it" girl. She's never really been that so I don't mind it so much.